Sec. 14. (a) Upon the adoption of an examination report under section 11(a)(1) of this chapter, the commissioner shall continue to hold the content of the examination report as confidential information for a period of thirty (30) days except to the extent provided in section 10(b) of this chapter. Thereafter, the report shall be open for public inspection.

     (b) This chapter does not prevent or prohibit the commissioner from disclosing the content of an examination report, preliminary examination report, or results, or any matter relating thereto, to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the insurance department of any other state or country, or to law enforcement officials of Indiana or any other state or agency of the federal government at any time, if the agency or office receiving the report or matters relating thereto agrees in writing to hold it confidential and in a manner consistent with this chapter.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-3.1-14

  • commissioner: refers to the insurance commissioner appointed under IC 27-1-1-2. See Indiana Code 27-1-3.1-1
  • company: means any person engaging in or proposing or attempting to engage in any transaction or kind of insurance or surety business and any person or group of persons who may otherwise be subject to the administrative, regulatory, or taxing authority of the commissioner. See Indiana Code 27-1-3.1-2
  • department: refers to the department of insurance of Indiana. See Indiana Code 27-1-3.1-3
  • examiner: means any individual or firm authorized by the commissioner to conduct an examination under this chapter. See Indiana Code 27-1-3.1-4
  • in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
     (c) If the commissioner determines that regulatory action is appropriate as a result of any examination, the commissioner may initiate any proceedings or actions authorized by law.

     (d) This chapter does not limit the commissioner’s authority to use and, if appropriate, to make public any final or preliminary examination report, any examiner or company work papers or other documents, or any other information discovered or developed during the course of any examination in the furtherance of any legal or regulatory action that the commissioner may, in the commissioner’s sole discretion, consider appropriate.

As added by P.L.26-1991, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.130-1994, SEC.12; P.L.116-1994, SEC.16; P.L.11-2011, SEC.4.

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